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so are you comfortable being placed in the category as sean hannity the eminent scientist or jerry falwell jr or cheryl adkins and i am comfortable in that company. no no that's a that's a hit piece they they put they were they went after me for and by the way many many other factual inaccuracies in that article i actually we actually in writing addressed this to the new york times and the reporter had the temerity to write back yes i saw him repeatedly say dr foushee is his north star that you should watch dr fouts you do is that and extend and follow every letter of his instructions but i heard right wing news media say something different about what he has said therefore so because other media distorted what i said they felt if there is justified reporting the distortion it's beyond belief it's beyond belief but anyway i you know i don't but my point i don't care so so they attack me what i care about of the the american people are able to get through this incredible stress test in a systematic way safely save lives and don't turn lives upside down we're already starting to see the mental

the school's president, jerry falwell jr., says there was no other choice. >> we have about 750 international students who have no alternative. they couldn't go back to their countries, and we have a lot of students who really had nowhere else to go but their dorm rooms. we've taken all the precautionary measures. >> reporter: one student tweeting, so proud to call liberty u my home. the unnecessary rage against liberty's administration in handling covid-19 is unjustified but lynchburg's mayor feels otherwise slamming the school's decision. >> i believe it was a reckless decision to decide to allow all students back on campus. we would have preferred that it be closed. >> reporter: still, falwell says he's playing by the rules by providing online classes and limiting in-person labs to ten students at a time. >> we're operating like every other college in the state of virginia abiding by all the governor's orders to the letter of the law. >> reporter: gun, -- again, when we talk about the spread of the coronavirus, you said it earlier, nearly half of those infected are young people between 18

city authorities thought that they had worked this out with the school's president, jerry falwell jr.rently there was some miscommunication. while many schools across the country are canceling classes and sending students home, things are a bit different this morning at liberty university in lynchburg, virginia. >> we spent our week preparing for the students to return, the ones who wanted to. we knew it wouldn't be many. >> reporter: spring break ended monday and the faith-based school is now welcoming students, faculty and staff back to campus. even opening up the dorms. >> i think it's a risk to not give them the option. it's hard to say whether it's safer to be at their home in new york state or here on campus in lynchburg. >> reporter: jerry falwell jr. says his school is abiding by the law providing online classes and limits in-person labs to ten persons at a time. but city officials say the university is taking an unnecessary risk. >> i believe it was a reckless decision to decide to allow all students back on campus. we would have preferred that it be closed. >> reporter: some

in virginia, christian evangelical leader jerry falwell, jr. defied calls for the closure of liberty university, where he serves as president,t, welcoming thousands of students back from spriring break and orordering faculty members to reporort to camampus. falwell is one o of president trump's most prominent supporters. in florida, republican governor ron desantis asked people over 65 and anyone who has traveled from new york state over the last three weeks to seself-isole for 14 dayays. governrnor desantis s has not ordered a statewide e ckdown, and some florida beaches remain open. in immigration news, documents obtained by the nation magazine show immigration and customs enforcement has quarantined nine prisoners and is monitoring at least 24 others across 10 immigration jails for symptoms of covid-19. the documents also show customs and border protection is working to convert several of its major border facilities into quarantine facities. this comes as bubuzzfeed reports an immigrant being held at an immigration jail in new jersey has bec

jerry fallwel jr., decided to re-open in direct contravention of all medical advice. as governors around the country were closing nonessential services and banning large services, jerry falwell jr., a staunch ally of the president, went on tv to talk about how many so many people are overreacting. >> it's strategy to me how many people are overreacting. impeachment didn't work and the mueller report didn't work. article 25 didn't work. maybe this is their next attempt to get trump. >> so last week jerry falwell junior ordered his students and staff back to school. you'll never guess what happened next. "new york times" is reporting as of friday nearly a dozen liberty university students were sick with symptoms that suggested coronavirus. propublica reporter alex mcginnis reported liberty university and reported on the re-opening in a piece entitled, "what it's like on one of the only university campuses still open in the u.s.." he joins me by phone. alec, what was it like? >> was very strange. a very strange middle ground on the one hand the campus was open, in contravention as you said of all types of public health advice and orders from various authorities. so students wer

. ♪ >> martha: liberty university president jerry falwell jr. students who want to return to campus in the midst of the outbreak, explaining "i think we, we, anyway, are protecting the students by having them on campus together, 99% of them are not at the age to be at risk and don't have conditions to put them at risk. "but at least one professor's outraged, writing "frightening to flout the danger of a novel coronavirus, falwell encourages reckless behavior of university students. i begged the dean, senior leadership, and board members to think long term. they are compelled by what is genuinely best by the university to act and to say nothing of the altruistic obligations as christians." here exclusively is the dean of liberty university u.s. congressman dave brat. dave, good to see you. >> thanks, martha. >> martha: obviously, you have university closed all across the country. in order to keep these students saved. this is a very, very controversial decision. why? >> well, i just want to state -- it's a little overstatement to say we have all

concrete example of that with liberty university in virginia, the evangelical university run by jerry falwell, jrounced it is bringing back students to dorms after spring break this week. they have 100,000 students. the faculty have been ordered to return to work. one parent tweeted to falwell, so in seven weeks, you'll send the thousands of students, who now have a higher risk of carrying it, back to their grandparents to get it. i'm as right wing as they get, bud. but as a parent of three of your students i think it is crazy, irresponsible and seems like a money grab. decisions like this will have real-world consequences and we can see it in some places. the governor of kentucky, the man on the left, and the democratic on the right is bill lee. they have taken different focus to the virus and this tells part of the story. kentucky in blue declared a state of emergency on march 6th. you see the aero on the left. the next day kentucky's governor was calling for social distancing. relatively early action in that state. by contrast, tennessee in orange did not declare a state of millennial until al

the school's well known conservative president jerry falwell jr.ning students must now self-quarantine for two weeks. >>> a cruise ship stuck at sea for over two weeks after coronavirus started spreading on board. city after city refused to let them into port even as passengers began to die. but now they may be finally headed for dry land. this morning nearly 2,000 cruise line passengers are trapped in limbo. >> unfortunately there's been a delay -- >> reporter: the holland america ship stranded at sea over two weeks as coronavirus spreads through the ship. >> so we're stuck on the ship. we can't go anywhere. because we're not healthy, i guess, or something. >> reporter: over 170 on board are already sick with flu-like symptoms and at least four have died as the captain fights to get proper tests delivered to the marooned vessel. >> it was like a covert operation the captain told us about that morning, because he didn't want to jeopardize the operation to get tests on the ship. >> reporter: the ship embarking on a south american voyage on march 7th

this is incredible, that jerry falwell jr., a staunch ally of president trump, and sort of an influentiali guess, still in the evangelical world, he reopened the university. he brought the students back. i believe he even said, you know, it might be good for them to come back. i don't know how this doesn't get into the legal realm sometime soon. we have a dozen students now sick with symptoms that look like covid-19. throe three are in the hospital for testing. eight were told to self-isolate. that number is going to go up. i think it is safe to say, when you have a whole bunch of students back at college, every other college that have high numbers, they've shut down their campuses. >> yeah. it is a real tragedy. the fact is, some of those students are quietly telling reporters that they're not allowed to speak out, that they have to be there. they fear for their health and lives. bob costa, we have been talking about the balancing act between the economy and medicine. medicine appears to have won out for now. science appeared to have won out for now. the balancing act continues. i've got

asymptomatic put people like my father at risk lots of questions that need to be answered, from jerry falwell, jriberty university. >> and that is why today we are hearing dr. birx say if near anywhere in new york if you are in new york you need to self-quarantine sending back to university, so soon after is certainly something that needs to be scrutinized, joining us right now on the telephone he cofounder home depot keep langone founder as well thanks very much for being here, great to have you this morning i want to first start and get your get your take, on home depot. confirming scomi at location tested positive for covid-19 your hots on home depot's leadership throughout all of this and according to the company that that employee is in quarantine working closely with cdc on guidance. >> if company said it, it happened i am pleased with steps taking limiting number of people in higher volume stores could be in store one time laws spacing cut hours back being to 6:00 i think going to close at 6:00, to allow restocking, people getting a break maria, let me change hoerns one minute please i sen

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